Thread: I feel like I can never get a good shoulder workout

Try doing standing overhead presses. They work the core and make you stabilize a lot more than seated presses. You'll probably also find your shoulders working harder and maybe feel it in your triceps as well (my triceps were sore after doing jerks for a while, but perhaps because I did no direct arm work).

I like to do triple set DB front/side/rear raises to give my workout a boost. Start with the standing overhead presses Squaggleboggin recommended, and
finish with the triple sets. You could put your shrugs in between these 2 exercises. Something like this:

Standing overhead BB/ or DB press warmup set 8-12 reps
set of 8 (go heavy as you can safely)
rest for 30 seconds
another set of 8

DB shrugs
3 sets of 8 reps

2 Triple sets of front, side, and rear raises w/ DB for 10 reps each
rest for 45 seconds and do 2nd set

Just something similar to the HIT style I've been doing.

Try going slower on your bent-over lateral raises and cable lateral raises. It's easy to cheat on those exercises and incorporate other muscles.

Upright rows suck IMO.

The front raises seem redundant with the military press. If you feel like you're not doing enough, try taking them out and adding 1 more set each of military, bent laterals, and standing laterals.

Maybe your body is bored with your rep scheme. Try doing sets of 15 reps, or lowering it to 4 reps. If you lower the reps though, go SLOW as cheating on these exercises is easy.

Okay, you don't feel like you are working out, but are you seeing gains in the area you are looking for improvements or not?

Same with me, the one exercise that I've hit a plateu for a long time now is millitary press. I could rep 125lbs. like 7 times for a 2-3month period with no strength gains in that area whatsoever. What should I do to overcome this?

Agree....superset and dropset raises are awesome...today me and my trainer did this for shoulders....most of you will think it's prolly too much but whatever...

Arnolds, 3 sets
BB seated military press, 3 sets
Lateral raises one arm, 35 drop, 25 drop, 10 1 set with each arm
Upright rows 3 sets
Hammer shrugs superset with barbell shrugs, 3 sets
Machine reverse flies 3 sets.

You'll probably hear me saying this alot on the board, but the volume you have there is just out of control IMO.

You have to keep in mind that your shoulders are indirectly hit in pretty much every upperbody exercise you perform. All heavy presses destroy the front delts, just as heavy rowing heavily stimulates the rear delts.

My personal shoulder routine goes something like this...

Seated Overhead Dumbbell Press: 2 x 5-7
Standing Dumbbell Side Laterals: 2 x 10-12

All sets to failure focusing on overload and progression.

You don't have to go this low, but I'd definitely recommend shaving off a good portion of the sets you have there.

I'd also avoid the upright rows. They'll send your rotator cuffs down the drain.